Beginning Harmonica class and Blues History classes start THURSDAY JANUARY 15TH 2009 http://tickets.passimcenter.org/default.asp?SearchMonth=1/28/2009&MV=1/15/2009&sel=x NEW INSTRUMENTAL CD IS DONE and being copied even as we speak.........copies available in January 09, release show April 25th at Passim!!!
11/11/08. working on the COVER and or artwork for a new CD that I just finished......................16 instrumentals...............more info to follow..... don't forget about the ANNUAL BIGFOOT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION SHOW at PASSIM SATURDAY NOV. 29TH...
Here is a link to a video piece that was done about me and my music http://www.vimeo.com/2187530...............many thanks to Michael Murie!!
I will be helping out ZACK NIMAN on the release of his new CD "Nothing But Hurt", which is a tribute to Mississippi John Hurt. The show will be Sunday Nov. 16th in the afternoon................more details can be found at Zack's site: http://www.zackniman.com/
I will be sitting in with Teresa Storch on FRIDAY NOV. 21ST at the LIZARD LOUNGE.......at the CD release party for her new CD "Stream of Concrete"............show starts at 9pm............and I will be playing some Dobro on a few songs.
DOBRO CLASS starts THURSDAY NOV. 6TH at 8pm at PASSIM SCHOOL OF MUSIC. 6 weeks, 75 minutes per class. CONTINUING HARMONICA also starting THURS. NOV. 6TH at 6:30pm, 6 weeks, 75 mins. more info at: http://www.clubpassim.com/musicschool/?school=current
still working on the instrumentals...............practicing. working on my playing. i dont know much. most things are not my business................. my dream would be if there was a candidate running for office, somewhere in the U.S., that talked about PEACE............that's all. just peace........and not starting new wars, or different wars, or wanting to kill people, or being macho. macho macho, regardless of gender, skin color, sexual orientation..............macho is macho. macho is as macho does..............it's all aggression. i need to go back to practicing. being on line is bad for me. peace and love to you all..............
getting ready for some more BIGFOOT at the Passim Campfire Festival Monday Sept 1st at noon...........
made some new pages recently, the first in a long time.......answers to frequently asked questions about HARMONICA.....which one to buy, how much should i spend, what is the harmonica class like etc......
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Passim show..........great to see so many of you there, and to meet some new folks. Thanks to Rob Laurens and Josh Kantor for their great musical assistance, as always, and thanks to the David Wax Museum for opening.......now it's back to work on some instrumentals, and hopefully writing some songs....
get those tickets for the big PASSIM SHOW!!! thanks to Glenn Jones for laying down some tasty guitar for an upcoming instrumental Cd........
counting the days till the BIG PASSIM show on JULY 26th, get your tickets early!!!http://www.clubpassim.org/passimcalendar/viewEvent2.php?evt=1206406040 .....doing some rehearsing with 'special guests' and hopefully some recording with fingerstyle guitar great Glenn Jones.....for upcoming instrumental Cd.......
BIG show coming up..........SATURDAY JULY 26TH CLUB PASSIM 8PM!! see YOU there...!!! 47 Palmer st. Harvard Sq. Cambridge Ma. (617) 492-7679 http://www.clubpassim.com/
5/14/08 looking forward to the upcoming CAMPFIRE FESTIVAL on May 24th, and........got a couple more new instrumentals written......i have been listening to my tasty vinyl lp's of ERIC SCHOENBERG. .....man that guy could play guitar. i guess he probably still can, but he's out in california now.........remember when he ran the music emporium, when it was in porter square. ?? ahhhhhhhhh.....nostalgia!!!
4/15......still grinding away at those instrumentals......getting some done, slowly but surely........there will also be a Beginning Harmonica Class at Passim starting May 13th..... you can register here http://www.clubpassim.com/musicschool/?school=current
THANKS to everyone that voted for me in the 2008 Boston Phoenix/FNX Best Music Poll and also THANKS to everyone who came out to the Johnny D's show April 8th.......it was a real treat to get to play with Martin Grosswendt, and to see all of you there......
VOTING is now underway for the 2008 Boston Phoenix/FNX Best Music Poll....i have been nominated for Boston's "Best Blues/R and B Act".... you can vote for me by going here: http://thephoenix.com/BMP/Boston/vote.aspx?id=9 I think you can only vote once, per computer, but it would be great if you could go to the library, and vote there, and vote at work, and tell everyone you have ever met and so on...... Really, it's a little weird, because of the popularity contest aspect of it, but seriously, I'm honored, and extremely grateful to be mentioned along side the likes of the Mercy Brothers, and Preacher Jack, among others......There are some great artists there, but I hope you'll ignore that, and vote for me none the less. As always, THANKS.......
some of you have written in saying 'Happy Birthday', but it wasnt my birthday, it was the birthday of the NAMELESS coffeehouse.......but thanks anyway.....
website was down for a few weeks...........it was almost like i didnt exist...........looking forward to the NAMELESS COFFEEHOUSE 41st Birthday show coming up MARCH 1ST, more info here......
welcome to 2008.............doing some serious practicing, and working on some new instrumentals...... a nice REVIEW of the BIRDS cd is in the Winter 2008 issue of SINGOUT magazine, read it HERE....
**LIVE SHOWS in FEBRUARY......
I've been nominated for another Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best of Boston Music Award......and, like last year, I will need all of you loyal DOBROISTS to VOTE for me.................party affiliations matter not!! republican, democrat, whig or torry, you can still cast your ballot for me.......I suspect I am in the "Blues" category, but the website isnt up you. Allegedly, voting starts March 13th. As soon as I know, you will know..... (if you check back here, that is...............)